REMC13 News and Events

The 2008 offerings include over 80 classes available throughout 5 sponsoring counties. The RTA classes are available to all staff members in the five counties at no cost to the participant. Snacks will be provided in the morning and in the afternoon. Lunch is on your own. The Academy is taking place July 28-August 1. Early registration is recommeded, as some classes tend to fill quite quickly. Register online. If you have questions about registration or need help registering contact Nancy Manning, nmanning@inghamisd.org, 517-244-1467.

Register online or contact Nancy Manning, 244.1477.

Free workshops after and during school on Blackboard are available this winter at CCRESA. Please check the flyer for registration information. Blackboard Workshops at CCRESA flyer.pda

ALA has plans to promote Banned Book Week in the virtual worlds of Second Life, MySpace and Facebook. For more information and materials for the week go to ALA’s website.

If you created a LearnPort I.D. and password previously, you may access the new interface without
creating a new one. If you have forgotten your login and password, you can email the system to retrieve them. If you are a new user we have attached instructions for logging in and filling out your user profile.

School employees are provided up-to-date and flexible online professional development to help meet personal and district learning requirements. Michigan LearnPort provides high quality courses and content through a full set of web-based communication tools and offers full professional development record-keeping capabilities. Topics range from Bloodborne Pathogen training to training on differentiated instruction.

One of the most exciting tools to use in LearnPort is netTrekker d.i. This award-winning educational search engine brings the best of the web to K-12 students, teachers, librarians, and parents. netTrekker d.i. connects you and your students to more than 180,000 hand-selected, educator-approved sites - organized by readability level and aligned with your state standards, providing resources ideal for every student’s learning needs with safe, reliable results.

Filling out the user profile .pdf

Register for a LearnPort I.D.

The tutorials take you through the steps of creating all the “pieces” of a course such as creating and posting announcements, how to post materials to the site, how to use the discussion board, how to enroll students, how to change the design of the course, and much more. The videos are free. You just need to drop an email to nmanning@inghamisd.org and Nancy will send you a CD-ROM via REMC 13 courier.

The session is free and you can register at Ingham ISD’s registration site. The trainer from ProQuest will focus on SIRS Discoverer, SIRS Renaissance and Heritage Quest. Not only will you learn how to use the database, you will pick up helpful tips for using it with students and staff.

Google Earth allows educators to add elements of satellite photography, world geography, locations, and images to the instructional lessons. Teachers can create Placemarks on the Google Earth map. Once the Placemarks are created, teachers can log into unitedstreaming and search for a video segment. Once the clip has been selected, a shortcut of it can be copied and pasted into the Placemark. The student can then access a video clip of the location they are exploring in Google Earth.

Complete instructions are available online.